Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 Sep 2011 23:21:56 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2011 22:45:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It's unrealistic to support everything you ever did forever > > like MS tried to do (IE6 is *still* hanging around somehow...) > > Tell me about it! IE6 is the nastiest pain in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Dale
pk wrote: Hi, Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440 Best regards Peter K Has anyone seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 September 2011 22:45:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's unrealistic to support everything you ever did forever > like MS tried to do (IE6 is *still* hanging around somehow...) Tell me about it! IE6 is the nastiest pain in the backside of any webmaster. I keep having to abandon pretty en

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:06:36 +0200 Jonas de Buhr wrote: > >The only problem with that attitude is that it eventually leads you > >to the same position that Microsoft is in with Windows -- where too > >many years of refusing to drop backwards compatibility were > >completely holding them back. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Jonas de Buhr
>The only problem with that attitude is that it eventually leads you to >the same position that Microsoft is in with Windows -- where too many >years of refusing to drop backwards compatibility were completely >holding them back. i thought of that too. as with many other things, the trick is to f

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might >> find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): >> >> http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Tor

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 September 2011 20:44, Michael Mol wrote: > Yeah, I just saw that. Admittedly, when I saw this section: > > --begin-section-- > > I'll add at this point that this isn't just a programmer problem. I've > seen entire companies get locked into the idea that “perfecting” the > program was everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:37 PM, pk wrote: > Hi, > > Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might > find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): > > http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440

[gentoo-user] Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-26 Thread pk
Hi, Happened upon this interview with Linus Torvalds that some of you might find interesting (if you haven't seen it already): http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Linus-Torvalds-s-Lessons-on-Software-Development-Management/ba-p/440 Best regards Peter K